Jim, the last five years has been drought up here. The was nothing for hay crops and the price of round bales went from $40.00 to $150.00 each. Our horses are fed hay from Sept to the start of June, big expense. A few locals bring in truck loads from out of province and board horses on their land for less than I can feed them at home. In better crop years, we sometimes send them to community pasture for the winter and they scrape the snow and graze over about 40 quarters of land. Grass only grows here June through Sept.